OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Biology and Evolution is 42. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Genetic Differentiation is Constrained to Chromosomal Inversions and Putative Centromeres in Locally Adapted Populations With Higher Gene Flow	953
Adaptation of Antarctic Icefish Vision to Extreme Environments	261
Terrestrial Birth and Body Size Tune UCP1 Functionality in Seals	129
Redefining the Limits of Functional Continuity in the Early Evolution of P-Loop NTPases	129
Highlight: Unmasking the Supergene Beneath the Ruff's Mating Strategies	109
Transposable Element Diversity and Activity Patterns in Neotropical Salamanders	106
Whole-genome Comparisons Identify Repeated Regulatory Changes Underlying Convergent Appendage Evolution in Diverse Fish Lineages	97
Inference of Gene Flow between Species under Misspecified Models	96
Correction to: Complex Evolutionary History With Extensive Ancestral Gene Flow in an African Primate Radiation	95
The Human Developing Cerebral Cortex Is Characterized by an Elevated De Novo Expression of Long Noncoding RNAs in Excitatory Neurons	88
Odd-Paired is Involved in Morphological Divergence of Snail-Feeding Beetles	85
Rewiring the Sex-Determination Pathway During the Evolution of Self-Fertility	85
HaploSweep: Detecting and Distinguishing Recent Soft and Hard Selective Sweeps through Haplotype Structure	82
Chromatin Accessibility and Gene Expression Vary Between a New and Evolved Autopolyploid of Arabidopsis arenosa	81
Disentangling Signatures of Selection Before and After European Colonization in Latin Americans	80
New Phylogenetic Models Incorporating Interval-Specific Dispersal Dynamics Improve Inference of Disease Spread	78
Inference of Coalescence Times and Variant Ages Using Convolutional Neural Networks	67
Functional Divergence in a Multi-gene Family Is a Key Evolutionary Innovation for Anaerobic Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	66
Prevalent Introgression Underlies Convergent Evolution in the Diversification ofPungitiusSticklebacks	65
Germ Granule Evolution Provides Mechanistic Insight into Drosophila Germline Development	64
UPrimer: A Clade-Specific Primer Design Program Based on Nested-PCR Strategy and Its Applications in Amplicon Capture Phylogenomics	63
The Demographic History of Populations and Genomic Imprinting have Shaped the Transposon Patterns in Arabidopsis lyrata	62
Elevated HIV Viral Load is Associated with Higher Recombination Rate In Vivo	62
The Scorpionfly (Panorpa cognata) Genome Highlights Conserved and Derived Features of the Peculiar Dipteran X Chromosome	62
Bidirectional Movement of Emerging H5N8 Avian Influenza Viruses Between Europe and Asia via Migratory Birds Since Early 2020	61

Multilevel Gene Expression Changes in Lineages Containing Adaptive Copy Number Variants	60
Phylogeography Reveals Association between Swine Trade and the Spread of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus in China and across the World	53
Evolution of Brain-Expressed Biogenic Amine Receptors into Olfactory Trace Amine-Associated Receptors	53
Genome-wide Parallelism Underlies Rapid Freshwater Adaptation Fueled by Standing Genetic Variation in a Wild Fish	51
PHACE: Phylogeny-Aware Detection of Molecular Coevolution	51
Selection Can Favor a Recombination Landscape That Limits Polygenic Adaptation	51
A General Substitution Matrix for Structural Phylogenetics	50
The Interplay Between Developmental Stage and Environment Underlies the Adaptive Effect of a Natural Transposable Element Insertion	50
A Small Change With a Twist Ending: A Single Residue in EGF-CFC Drives Bilaterian Asymmetry	47
Phylogenomic analyses reveal that Panguiarchaeum is a clade of genome-reduced Asgard archaea within the Njordarchaeia	47
An Ancestral Major Histocompatibility Complex Organization in Cartilaginous Fish: Reconstructing MHC Origin and Evolution	46
Unequally Abundant Chromosomes and Unusual Collections of Transferred Sequences Characterize Mitochondrial Genomes of Gastrodia (Orchidaceae), One of the Largest Mycoheterotrophic Plant Genera	46
Evolution of Spatial and Temporalcis-Regulatory Divergence in Sticklebacks	46
Brief Communication: The Predictable Network Topology of Evolutionary Genomic Constraint	45
FishmiRNA: An Evolutionarily Supported MicroRNA Annotation and Expression Database for Ray-Finned Fishes	44
Inference of Infectious Disease Transmission through a Relaxed Bottleneck Using Multiple Genomes Per Host	43
How did evolution halve genome size during an oceanic island colonization?	43